"Develop A Sense Of Humor." ~Frankl

I’m taking a class from Ray Higdon called Vibrational Money Immersion. Our assignment for Module 3 was to develop faith by studying one person who came from a rough background to abundance.

I learned that my WHY will determine my success in network marketing.

Your Search For Meaning

I read Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl.

Frankl was born in 1905 in Vienna, Austria, to Jewish parents. He had one sister. He passed away in 1997.

He was a neurologist, psychiatrist, and brain surgeon before WWII.  He is famous for the best selling book Man’s Search for Meaning, which he wrote describing life as a concentration camp prisoner from the (relatively) objective view of a psychiatrist.

In 1942, he was deported to his first concentration camp. His wife and parents died in various camps.  He was liberated in 1945 by Americans.

What’s Your Why?

“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.” Frankl

During his 3 years in the concentration camps, Frankl experienced

• severe hunger
• sleep deprivation
• bodily bug infestation
• sickness (though relatively little compared to others)
• extreme cold
• lack of clothes
• shoes with holes in them
• slave labor digging trenches and railway lines in rock solid frozen ground
• constant death around him
• physical abuse
• probably the worst, mental and emotional abuse from SS guards and Jews that had been promoted to “guard” positions.

Through it all he remained hopeful, positive, and kind. He went out of his way to help others who were depressed and losing hope. He played mind games and would remove himself from his physical situation by thinking of his wife and his love for her and about how he would help people when he got out.

Do You Have A Vision?

“The prisoner who had lost faith in the future–his future– was doomed.” Frankl

Helping suicidal prisoners in the camps, he came to realize they had given up hope for the future. The people, like himself, who thought about and made plans for what they would do when they got out were the strongest people there.

(Lesson: Vision is critical. We require a 5 year and 10 year vision for our lives).

In these camps, he came to his hallmark conclusion that even in the most absurd, painful and dehumanized situation, life has potential meaning and that therefore even suffering is meaningful. (Wikipedia)

What’s Your Inner Decision?

“In the final analysis it becomes clear that the sort of person the prisoner became was the result of an inner decision, and not the result of camp influences alone.  Fundamentally, therefore, any man can, even under such circumstances, decide what shall become of him–mentally and spiritually.” Frankl

The exact translation of German from his best selling book, Man’s Search for Meaning, is “Saying Yes to Life in Spite of Everything”.

In your every day life, you can “say yes to life”, yes to your business, yes to yourself and to moving forward in spite of everything, no matter what’s going on around you.

NOTHING I ever experience could be as painful as what the concentration camp prisoners endured.  They lost their families, every belonging they ever owned, their dignity, their sense of self, of importance, of making a difference. In the camps, they were only referred to as a number, never a name.

No matter how hard network marketing may seem, no matter how challenging running a business appears, no matter what the little nagging daily occurrences that seem to hold you back, you have  family and friends, the support of mentors and peers, your dignity, self worth, many possessions and resources, your health, and your freedom.

I used to (silently) complain about how hard things are, about what I don’t have and that’s why I’m not successful. What a joke. I have everything I need and more to be wildly successful. You probably do too.

It’s simply a matter of re-programming our minds, building new habits and doing the work that needs to be done to get the results.

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